Journal of Ecclesiastical History

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Ecclesiastical History is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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Between scholarship and church politics. The lives of John Prideaux, 1578–1650. By John Maddicott. Pp. xxii + 430 incl. frontispiece and 7 ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. 2
Moral majorities across the Americas. Brazil, the United States, and the creation of the religious right. By Benjamin A. Cowan. Pp. x + 294 incl. 5 ills. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina 2
The memory of Ignatius of Antioch. By Frazer MacDiarmid. (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2. Reihe, 581.) Pp. xii + 271. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2022. €94 (paper). 978 3 16 1614992
The shepherd of Hermas. A literary, historical, and theological handbook. By Jonathan Lookadoo. Pp. xii + 295 incl. 1 table. London–New York: T&T Clark, 2021. £85. 978 0 5676 9791 21
Nil d'Ancyre. Commentaire sur le Cantique des cantiques, Tome II. By Marie-Gabrielle Guérard. (Sources Chrétiennes, 623.) Pp. 248. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2022. €22 (paper). 978 2 204 14538 1; 071
An embodied reading of the Shepherd of Hermas. The book of visions and its role in moral formation. By Angela Kim Harkins. (Studies in Ancient Religion and Culture.) Pp. x + 228. Sheffield–Bristol, C<1
Evesham Abbey and local society in the late Middle Ages. The abbot's household account, 1456–7 and the priors’ registers, 1520–40. Edited by David Cox. (Worcestershire Historical Society New Series, 31
The English College at Lisbon, 1622–1972. By Simon P. Johnson. Pp. xxiv + 269 incl. 8 black-and-white plates and 32 colour plates. Leominster: Gracewing, 2023. £25. 978 085244 701 71
Travelling Festivals in Late Antiquity: How Christmas Came to the Greek East1
The Merits of ‘Moral Ecumenism’: Secularism, Suspicion and Jewish-Christian Relations in Twentieth-Century Britain1
The Lancashire and Cheshire Presbyterian Campaigns of 1646 and the Politics of Accommodation1
Die Kreuzzüge der Deutschen. Die Staufer und der Glaubenskrieg, 1124–1250. By Robert-Tarek Fischer. Pp. 272 incl. 20 colour ills. Vienna: Böhlau, 2023. €35. 978 3 205 21817 31
The visitation of Hereford diocese in 1397. Edited by Ian Forrest and Christopher Whittick. Pp. xliv + 271. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press/Canterbury and York Society, 2021. £35. 978 0 9072390
The anaphoral tradition in the ‘Barcelona Papyrus’. By Nathan P. Chase. (Studia Traditionis Theologiae.) Pp. 384 incl. 6 colour and black-and-white figs and 86 tables. Turnhout: Brepols, 2023. £90. 970
Die Dynamik der Liturgie im Spiegel ihrer Bücher. La Dynamique de la liturgie au miroir de ses livres. Festschrift für Martin Klöckener. Mélanges offerts à Martin Klöckener. Edited by Hélène Bricout, 0
Reformation, revolution, renovation. The roots and reception of the Rosicrucian call for general reform. By Lyke de Vries. (Universal Reform, 3.) Pp. xii + 432 incl. 13 colour and black-and-white figs0
The politics of persecution. Middle Eastern Christians in an age of empire. By Mitri Raheb. Pp. viii + 207. Waco, Tx: Baylor University Press, 2021. $24.99. 978 1 4813 1440 4 - The vanishin0
L'Occident au regret de Jérusalem (1187–fin du XIVe siècle). By Matthieu Rajohnson. (Histoire Culturelle sous la direction de Martin Aurell, 15.) Pp. 968 incl. 7 ills. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2021.0
The rise and fall of Christian Ireland. By Crawford Gribben. Pp. xxiv + 318 incl. 15 ills and 4 maps. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. £25. 978 0 19 886818 70
A rebel saint. Baptist Wriothesley Noel, 1798–1873. By Philip D. Hill (foreword David Bebbington). Pp. xiv + 253 incl. 16 ills. Cambridge: James Clarke & Co., 2022. £25. 978 0 227 17761 70
Magic in Malta. Sellem Din al-Sheikh Mansur and the Roman inquisition, 1605. Edited by Alexander Mallett, Catherine Rider and Dionisius A. Agius. (Islamic History and Civilization, Studies and Texts, 0
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Transatlantic religion. Europe, America and the making of modern Christianity. Edited by Annette G. Aubert and Zachary Purvis. (Church History and Religious Culture, 82.) Pp. xii + 259. Leiden–Boston:0
Étienne Pasquier, The Jesuits’ catechism or their doctrine examined (1602). Edited by Robert A. Maryks and Jotham Parsons (trans. Patricia M. Ranum). (Jesuit Studies, 33; Anti-Jesuit Literature, 1.) P0
Makarios – Ein östlicher Kirchenvater im Spiegel des deutschen Protestantismus. By Martin Illert. (Eastern Church Identities, 14.) Pp. xvi + 203. Leiden: Brill/Schōningh, 2023. €107.87. 978 3 506 79130
Confession and Confessors in the Templars’ Testimonies, 1307–1311: Notes on the Brothers’ Defence Strategy0
Courtier, scholar, and man of the sword. Lord Herbert of Cherbury and his world. By Christine Jackson. Pp. xviii + 381 incl. 23 ills and 2 tables. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. £75. 0
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Print culture and the crossroads. The book and Central Europe. Edited by Elizabeth Dillenburg, Howard Louthan and Drew B. Thomas. (Library of the Written Word, 94; The Handpress World, 75.) Pp. xiv + 0
Martin Luther’s Bible. Perspectives on a rich legacy. Pp. vii + 193 incl. 19 ills. Edited by W. Gordon Campbell. Cambridge: James Clarke and Co., 2024. £25 (paper). 978 0 227 17918 50
The mission of Apolo Kivebulaya. Religious encounter and social change in the Great Lakes, c.1865–1935. By Emma Wild-Wood. (Eastern Africa Series.) Pp. xviii + 318 incl. 5 ills and 2 maps. Wood0
A history of women in Christianity to 1600. By Hannah Matis. Pp. viii + 255 incl. 69 ills. Chichester–Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2023. £27.99 (paper). 978 1 119 75661 30
The Eusebius Essay Prize The World Christianities Essay Prize0
Play time. Gender, anti-semitism and temporality in medieval biblical drama. By Daisy Black. (Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture.) Pp. xii + 234 incl. 5 figs. Manchester: Manchester University0
The theologian and the empire. A biography of José de Acosta (1540–1600). By Andrés I. Prieto. (Jesuit Studies, 42.) Pp. viii + 412. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2024. €162. 978 90 04 46204 5; 2214 32890
Eastern Christianity. A reader. Edited by J. Edward Walters. Pp. xvi + 423 incl. 4 ills. Grand Rapids, Mi: Wm B. Eerdmans, 2021. £44.99. 978 0 8028 7686 70
The Knights Hospitaller in medieval Hungary. Edited by Zsolt Hunyadi and András Ribi. (Arpadiana XIII.) Pp. 309 incl. 8 figs and 11 tables. Budapest: Research Centre for the Humanities, 2023. Ft 2560.0
Gregory of Nyssa, Augustine of Hippo and the Filioque. By Chungman Lee. (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, 169.) Pp. xiv + 366. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2021. €127. 978 90 04 46515 2; 0920 623X0
The 1973 Billy Graham Crusade in Seoul: Korean Protestant Exceptionalism and American Uniqueness0
The aesthetics of melancholia. Medical and spiritual diseases in medieval Iberia. By Luis F. López González. (Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture.) Pp. xii + 259 incl. 20 ills. Oxford–New York:0
Missions Étrangères de Paris (MEP) and China from the seventeenth century to the present. Edited by Ji Li. (Studies in the History of Christianity in East Asia, 6.) Pp. xii + 280 incl. 10 colour and b0
The call of Albion. Protestants, Jesuits, and British literature in Poland-Lithuania, 1567–1775. By Mirosława Hanusiewicz-Lavallee. (Jesuit Studies, 45.) Pp. x + 468. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2024. €143.0
Godly violence in the Puritan Atlantic world. A study of military providentialism, 1636–1676. By Matthew Rowley. Pp. xvi + 316 incl. 3 figs and 4 maps. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2024. £0
Gisbertus Voetius (1589–1676) on God, freedom, and contingency. An early modern Reformed voice. By Andreas J. Beck. (Church History and Religious Culture, 84.) Pp. xvi + 616. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2020
National, local, family. History from Somerset's bishops' registers, 1264–1559. Somerset Record Society: extra series 2. Edited by Robert Dunning. (Somerset Record Society.) Pp. ix + 153. Bristol: 4wo0
Religion and governance in England's emerging colonial empire, 1601–1698. By Haig Z. Smith. (New Transculturalisms, 1400–1800.) Pp. xii + 292. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. £44. 978 3 030 70130 70
The Anglican eucharist in Australia. The history, theology, and liturgy of the eucharist in the Anglican Church of Australia. By Brian Douglas. (Anglican-Episcopal Theology and History, 8.) Pp. x + 340
Reading Martin Luther from Legend to Life0
The Byzantine platonists, 284–1453. Edited by Frederick Lauritzen and Sarah Klitenic Wear. (Theandrites.) Pp. xviii + 322. Steubenville, Oh: Franciscan University Press, 2021. $65. 978 1 730
Jesuit astrology. Prognostication and science in early modern culture. By Luís Campos Ribeiro. (Time, Astronomy, and Calendars. Texts and Studies, 13.) Pp. xx + 682 incl. 39 colour and black-and-white0
Irish women in religious orders, 1530–1700. Suppression, migration and reintegration. By Bronagh Ann McShane. (Irish Historical Monograph Series.) Pp. xvi + 304 incl. 5 ills, 6 tables and 1 map. Woodb0
Transforming Church Strategies in a Changing Social Landscape: Sunday School Statistics from a Swedish Diocese, 1920–19900
London Presbyterians and the British revolutions, 1638–64. By Elliot Vernon. (Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain.) Pp. xiv + 328. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023 (firs0
Come, let us reason together. A life of John Wood Oman. By Fleur S. Houston. Pp. xviii + 413. Eugene, Or: Pickwick Productions, 2024. £43 (paper). 978 1 6667 7551 80
A companion to Byzantine iconoclasm. By Mike Humphreys. (Companions to the Christian Tradition, 99.) Pp. xviii + 630 incl. 73 colour and black-and-white ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2021. €249. 978 90 0
Rudolf Bultmann. Briefe an Hans von Soden, Briefwechsel mit Philipp Vielhauer und Hans Conzelmann. By Werner Zager. Pp. lxvi + 332 incl. 7 ills. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2023. €129. 978 3 16 162570 10
ECH volume 73 issue 4 Cover and Back matter0
Oriental Scholarship and Episcopal Polity: The Reception of John Selden's Arabic-Latin Edition of Eutychius0
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Religion, enlightenment and empire. British interpretations of Hinduism in the eighteenth century. By Jessica Patterson. (Ideas in Context.) Pp. xii + 355. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Pre0
Strangers within. The rise and fall of the New Christian trading elite. By Francisco Bethencourt. Pp. xx + 603 incl. 30 ills, 4 tables and 2 maps. Princeton–Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2024. £0
Tyconius’ book of rules. An ancient invitation to ecclesial hermeneutics. By Matthew R. Lynskey. (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, 167.) Pp. xviii + 456. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2021. €138. 90
The crisis of Calvinism in revolutionary England, 1640–1660. Arminian theologies of predestination and grace. By Andrew Ollerton. (Studies in Modern British Religious History, 47.) Pp. x + 266 incl. 20
Pastorale Strategien zwischen Konfessionalisierung und Aufklärung. Katholische Predigten und ihre implizite Hōrer-/Leserschaft (circa 1670 bis 1800). By Florian Bock. Pp. 411 incl. 15 ills. Münster: A0
Reformation and everyday life. Edited by Nina J. Koefoed and Bo Kristian Holm. (Refo500 Academic Studies, 100.) Pp. 342 incl. 14 colour and black-and-white ills and 1 table. Gōttingen: Vandenhoeck and0
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From Nairobi to the world. David B. Barrett and the re-imagining of World Christianity. By Gina A. Zurlo. (Theology and Mission in World Christianity, 26.) Pp. xii + 155 incl. 20 colour and black-and-0
The Oxford history of British and Irish Catholicism, IV: Building identity, 1830–1913. Edited by Carmen Mangion and Susan O’Brien. (History of British and Irish Catholicism.) Pp. xxvi + 329 inc0
Exploration, religion and empire in the sixteenth-century Ibero-Atlantic World. A new perspective on the history of modern science. By Mauricio Nieto Olarte. Trans. Jimmy Weiskopf. (Maritime Humanitie0
How the West became anti-semitic. Jews and the formation of Europe, 800–1500. By Ivan G. Marcus. Pp. xiii + 364. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024. £35. 978 0 691 25891 10
Knowledge, faith, and early Christian initiation. By Alex Fogleman. Pp. xiv + 256. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. £85. 978 1 009 37739 30
Christianity in Germany, 1550–1850. Confessionalization, enlightenment, pluralization. 2 vols. By Andreas Holzem. Pp. xiv + 730, x + 731–1600. Paderborn: Brill Schöningh, 2023. £232.71. 978 3 506 79520
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Biographies of a reformation. Religious change and confessional coexistence in Upper Lusatia, 1520–1635. By Martin Christ. (Studies in German History.) Pp. xiv + 261 incl. 14 ills and 2 maps. Oxford–N0
World Christianity and indigenous experience. A global history, 1500–2000. By David Lindenfeld. Pp. x + 415 incl. 9 ills and 2 tables. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. £29.99 (pap0
Pietismus Handbuch. Edited by Wolfgang Breul with Thomas Hahn-Bruckart. Pp. xii + 797. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2021. €59 (paper). 978 3 16 153952 70
The Oxford history of British and Irish Catholicism, II: Uncertainty and change, 1641–1745. Edited by John Morrill and Liam Temple. (History of British and Irish Catholicism.) Pp. xxvi + 324 in0
Ivo of Chartres’s Quare Deus Natus et Passus Sit0
Lay Interventions and the Reshaping of Sacred Rituals and Space in 1520s Milan0
Britain and the German Churches, 1945–1950. The role of the Religious Affairs Branch in the British zone. By Peter Howson. (Studies in Modern British Religious History, 43.) Pp. xx + 285 incl. 1 map, 0
The Catholic Church and European state formation, AD 1000 –1500. By Jørgen Møller and Jonathan Stavnskær Doucette. Pp. xiv + 223 incl. 30 figs and 12 tables. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 0
Foundation documents from St Mary's Abbey, York, 1085–1137. Edited by Richard Sharpe (with Janet Burton, Michael Gullick and Nicholas Karn). (Surtees Society, CCXXVII.) Pp. xiv + 473 incl. fron0
Hong Kong's last English bishop. The life and times of John Gilbert Hindley Baker. By Philip L. Wickeri. Pp. xvi + 196 incl. frontispiece and 30 ills. HK$480. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 200
‘We aim at nothing less than the whole world’. The Seventh-day Adventist Church's missionary enterprise and the General Conference Secretariat, 1863–2019. Edited by A. L. Chism, D. J. B. Trim and M. F0
Rwanda's Genocide and the Leadership Crisis in the Rwandan Anglican Church0
The General Councils of the Eastern Christian Churches. Edited by A. Melloni and E. A. Ishac. 2 vols. (Corpvs Christianorvm, Conciliorum Oecumenicorum Generaliumque Decreta.) Pp. xviii + 519, xviii + 0
Reformation auf der Kanzel. Luther als Reiseprediger. By Roland M. Lehmann. (Beiträge zur historischen Theologie, 199.) Pp. xvi + 617 incl. 1 table. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2021. €125. 978 3 16 1596900
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Der Jansenismus im deutschsprachigen Raum, 1670-–1789. Bücher, Bilder, Bibliotheken. Edited by Christoph Schmitt-Maaß. (Frühe Neuzeit, 250.) Pp. viii + 233 incl. 10 colour ills. Berlin-Boston: De Gruy0
The library of paradise. A history of contemplative reading in the monasteries of the Church of the East. By David A. Michelson. (Early Christian Studies.) Pp. xxviii + 329 incl. 1 ills and one map. O0
Ceremonies of the Sarum missal. A careful conjecture. By R. J. Urquhart. Pp. xxvi + 302 incl. 8 figs. London–New York: T&T Clark, 2021. £100. 978 0 5676 9426 30
Religion and the American Revolution. An imperial history. By Katherine Carté. Pp. xxii + 394 incl. 20 ills. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press/Omohundro Institute of Early American H0
Evagrius of Pontus. The Gnostic trilogy. Translated and annotated by Robin Darling Young, Joel Kalvesmaki, Columba Stewart, Charles Stang and Luke Dysinger Pp. vi + 520. Oxford–New York: Oxford Univer0
Illness, pain, and health care in early Christianity. By Helen Rhee. Pp. xvi + 351. Grand Rapids, Mi: William B. Eerdmans, 2022. $49.99. 978 0 8028 7684 30
Early Modern Philology, Scriptural Authority and the Enigma of the Cock’s Crow0
Ethnicity and inclusion. Religion, race, and whiteness in constructions of Jewish and Christian identities. By David G. Horrell (foreword Judith Lieu). Pp. xxiv + 424. Grand Rapids, Mi: Wil0
Contesting Catholics. Benedicto Kiwanuka and the birth of postcolonial Uganda. By Jonathan L. Earle and J. J. Carney. (Religion in Transforming Africa.) Pp. xx + 243 incl. 18 ills and 2 maps. Woodbrid0
The Scots Afrikaners. Identity politics and intertwined religious cultures in southern and central Africa. By Retief Müller. (Scottish Religious Cultures Historical Perspectives.) Pp. viii + 224. Edin0
Childhood, youth and religious minorities in early modern Europe. Edited by Tali Berner and Lucy Underwood. (Studies in the History of Childhood.) Pp. xiv + 362 incl. 11 figs and 2 tables. Cham: Palgr0
Abbatial authority and the writing of history in the Middle Ages, By Benjamin Pohl. Pp. xv + 416 incl. 32 ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. £120. 978 0 19 879537 70
Venantius Fortunatus and Gallic Christianity. Theology in the writings of an Italian émigré in Merovingian Gaul. By Benjamin Wheaton. (The Early Middle Ages, 29.) Pp. x + 293. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 200
A companion to the Book of Common Prayer. By Gerald Bray. Pp. xiv + 505. Cambridge: James Clarke and Co., 2023. £30. 978 0 227 17930 70
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The Oxford handbook of early Christian archaeology. Edited by David K. Pettegrew, William R. Caraher and Thomas W. Davis. Pp. xvi + 707 incl. 189 figs and 2 tables. Oxford–New York: Oxford University 0
From Bible to Law in the Early Middle Ages. Adaptations of the Old Testament in the Collectio Hibernensis and King Alfred’s Law-Book0
Urban developments in late antique and medieval Rome. Revising the narrative of renewal. Edited by Gregor Kalas and Ann van Dijk. (Social Worlds of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages.) Pp. 341 i0
Imitations of infinity. Gregory of Nyssa and the transformation of mimesis. By Michael Motia. (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion.) Pp. viii + 275. Philadelphia, Pa: University of0
Age of the spirit. Charismatic renewal, the Anglo-world, and global Christianity, 1945–1980. By John Maiden. Pp. xviii + 261 incl. 15 ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. £83. 978 0 10
Der Körper des Priesters. Gebrechen im Katholizismus der Frühen Neuzeit. By Brendan Röder. (Campus Historische Studien, 80.) Pp. 348 incl. 2 ills. Frankfurt–New York: Campus Verlag, 2021. €50 (paper).0
The Eusebius Essay Prize The World Christianities Essay Prize0
Papal overlordship and European princes, 1000–1270. By Benedict Wiedemann. (Studies in Medieval European History.) Pp. 268. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. £81. 978 01 9285503 90
American Quaker resistance to war, 1917–1973. Law, politics and conscience. By Isaac Barnes May. (Quaker Studies.) Pp. vi + 98. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2022. €170. 978 90 04 52250 3; 2542 49710
Faith in war. Religion and the military in Germany, 1500–1650. Nikolas M. Funke. (Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association, 31.) Pp. viii + 238. New York–Oxford: Berghahn, 2024. £99. 90
The Womb of Flame: The Pre-Christian Origins of a Greco-Syrian Baptismal Metaphor0
Narratives and representations of suffering, failure, and martyrdom. Early modern Catholicism confronting the adversities of history. Edited by Leonardo Cohen. (Estudos de Historia Religiosa, 28.) Pp.0
Labour and Christianity in the mission. African workers in Tanganyika and Zanzibar, 1864–1926. By Michelle Liebst. (Religion in Transforming Africa.) Pp. xiv + 225 incl. 1 fig. and 7 tables. Woodbridg0
Singing the Reformation in Windsor0
Les Mobilités monastiques en Orient et en Occident de l'antiquité tardive au moyen âge. (IVe –XVe siècle.) Edited by Olivier Delouis, Maria Mossakowskia-Gaubert and Annick Peters-Custot. (Collection d0
Childbirth and Emerging Missionary Information Networks in Britain and the South Pacific0
The Bible told them so. How Southern Evangelicals fought to preserve white supremacy. By J. Russell Hawkins. Pp. xii + 210. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. £19.99. 978 0 19 757106 40
The Virgin Mary in Byzantium, c. 400–1000. Hymns, homilies and hagiography. By Mary B. Cunningham. Pp. xii + 275. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. £19.99 (paper). 978 1 009 32725 0
Augustus Hopkins Strong and the struggle to reconcile Christian theology with modern thought. By John Aloisi. (Sustainable History Monograph Pilot.) Pp. x + 170. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester0
The Lost Breviarium Compertorum and Henry VIII's First Act for the Dissolution of the Monasteries, 15360
Das Mainzer Priesterseminar 1933–1945. Priesterausbildung, Kriegsterfahrung und Kriegsdeutung. By Maximilian Künster. (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Zeitgeschichte.) Pp. xiv + incl. 11 ills an0
Christian culture and society in later Catholic England. Studies in memory of F. Donald Logan. Edited by Travis R. Baker. (Later Medieval Europe, 24.) Pp. xxiv + 651 incl. 10 colour ills and 8 tables.0
The Samurai and the cross. The Jesuit enterprise in early modern Japan. By M. Antoni J. Ucerler sj. Pp. xviii + 445 incl. 70 ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. £25.99. 970
Reading and shaping medieval cartularies. Multi-scribe manuscripts and their patterns of growth. A study of the earliest cartularies of Glasgow Cathedral and Lindores Abbey. By Joanna Tucker. (Studies0
Migrational religion. Context and creativity in the Latinx diaspora. By João B. Chaves. Pp. xviii + 195 incl. 1 table. Waco, Tx: Baylor University Press, 2021. £42.95. 978 1 4813 1594 40
Catholics and violence in the nineteenth-century global world. By Eveline G. Bouwers. (Studies in Modern History.) Pp. xvi + 358 incl. 6 figs. New York–London: Routledge, 2024. £130. 978 0 367 6500
The dissolution of the monasteries. A new history. By James G. Clark. Pp. x + 689 incl. 33 colour plates. New Haven–London: Yale University Press, 2021. £25. 978 0 300 11572 70
Education, Confessional Conflict, and the Catholic Mission in Scotland, c. 1660–17070
Spiritual direction as a medical art in early Christian monasticism. By Jonathan L. Zecher. (Early Christian Studies.) Pp. xxii + 371 incl. 16 figs and 5 tables. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Pre0
From Islamic to Christian Donation: Gifts to the Church after the Conquest of Granada0
The Sunday School movement in Britain, 1900–1939. By Caitriona McCartney. (Studies in Modern British Religious History, 46.) Pp. xvi + 210 incl. 10 graphs and 3 tables. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boyde0
Strange brethren. Refugees, religious bonds, and reformation in Frankfurt, 1554–1608. By Maximilian Miguel Scholz. (Studies in Early Modern German History.) Pp. xvi + 246 incl. 8 ills and 1 map. Charl0
A history of pew renting in the Church of England. By J. C. Bennett. Pp. xvi + 237 incl. 4 tables. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. £119.99. 978 3 031 54426 20
Preaching Predestination and Pastoral Ministry in the Caroline Parish0
Reformed government. Puritanism, historical contingency, and ecclesiastical politics in late Elizabethan England. Edited by Polly Ha with Jonathan D. Moore and Edda Frankot. Pp. lxxii + 191. Oxford–Ne0
Le Bolle di Celestino V. Edited by Ugo Paoli and Paola Poli. (Corpus Coelestinianum, 2.) Pp. xii + 444 incl. 8 colour ills. Florence: Sismel, 2023. €85. 97888 9290 232 90
A constitutional culture. New England and the struggle against arbitrary rule in the Restoration empire. By Adrian Chastain Weimer. (Early American Studies.) Pp. xiv + 365 incl. 4 figs. Philadelphia, 0
China and the true Jesus. Charisma and organization in a Chinese Christian Church. By Melisa Wei-Tsing Inouye. Pp. xx + 385 incl. 24 ills and 1 map. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. £250
Des Allers sans retours? Les prêtres français en Amérique latine, 1961–1984, I : L'Appel et la conversion. By Olivier Chatelan. (Chrétiens et Sociétés. Documents et Mémoires, 48.) Pp. 298 incl.0
Trauma and recovery in early north African Christianity. By Scott Harrower. (Christianities Before Modernity, 1.) Pp. xii + 219. Berlin–Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2024. £85. 978 1 5015 1890 40
A spirit of revitalization. Urban Pentecostalism in Kenya. By Kyama M. Mugambi. (Studies in World Christianity.) Pp. xviii + 330 incl. 2 ills and 2 maps. Waco, Tx: Baylor University Press, 0
Atheists and atheism before the Enlightenment. The English and Scottish experience. By Michael Hunter. Pp. viii + 223. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. £30. 978 1 00 926877 60
Religious plurality at princely courts. Dynasty, politics, and confession in central Europe, ca. 1555 –1860. Edited by Benjamin Marschke, Daniel Riches, Alexander Schunka and Sara Smart. (Spekt0
Scottish liturgical traditions and religious politics. From reformers to Jacobites, 1540–1764. Edited by Allan I. Macinnes, Patricia Barton and Kieran German. (Scottish Religious Cultures Historical P0
The emperor and the elephant. Christians and Muslims in the age of Charlemagne. By Sam Ottewill-Soulsby. Pp. xx + 364 incl. 4 ills and 5 maps. Princeton–Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2023. £35. 0
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Reformation, resistance, and reason of state (1517–1625). By Sarah Mortimer. (History of Political Thought.) Pp. x + 301 incl. 4 maps. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. £35. 978 0 19 9670
Missionaries in the golden age of Hollywood. Race, gender, and spirituality on the big screen. By Douglas Carl Abrams. (Studies in the History of the Media.) Pp. 246. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. £0
The emergence of new peoples and polities in Europe, 1000 –1300. Edited by Walter Pohl, Veronika Wieser and Francesco Borri. (Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, 31; Historiogra0
Ite missa est. Ritual interactions around mass in Chinese society (1583–1720). By Hongfan Yang. (Studies in the History of Christianity in East Asia, 7.) Pp. xii + 325 incl. 10 colour and black-and-wh0
La Notion de volonté dans les écrits de saint Augustin entre 388 et 404. By Evgenia Moiseeva. (Collection des Études Augustiniennes, Série Antiquité, 214.) Pp. 521. Turnhout: Brepols/Paris: Institut d0
One nation under Graham. Apocalyptic rhetoric and American exceptionalism. By Jonathan D. Redding. Pp. x + 182 incl. 2 figs. Waco, Tx: Baylor University Press, 2021. $34.99. 978 1 4813 15190
Origen and Hellenism. The interplay between Greek and Christian ideas in late antiquity. By Panayiotis Tzamalikos. New York: Peter Lang, 2022. Pp. xxiii + 569. £86.40. 978 1 4331 8917 30
A companion to medieval miracle collections. Edited by Sari Katajala-Peltomaa, Jenni Kuuliala and Iona McCleery. (Reading Medieval Sources, 5.) Pp. x + 378. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2021. €228. 978 90 040
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Beyond indigenization. Christianity and Chinese history in a global context. By Feiya Tao (trans. Max L. Bohnenkamp). (East and West, 15.) Pp. xii + 507 incl. 3 tables. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2022. €180
Reading the Reformations. Theologies, cultures and beliefs in an age of change. Edited by Anna French. (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History.) Pp. xviii + 338 incl. 10 colour figs. Leiden–Boston:0
Exploring the Rebirth of a Chronicle: Why Robert the Monk's Historia Iherosolimitana Gained New Life in the Fifteenth Century - ADDENDUM0
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The inner life of Catholic reform. From the Council of Trent to the Enlightenment. By Ulrich L. Lehner. Pp. xii + 294. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. £22.99. 978 0 19 762060 10
Between Kingdom and Empire: the Social Power of Dutch Missionary Maps, 1850–19400
England's second Reformation. The battle for the Church of England, 1625–1662. By Anthony Milton. (Studies in Early Modern British History.) Pp. xiv + 528. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Pre0
Schriftauslegung und Bildgebrauch bei Isidor von Pelusium. By Stefan Berkmüller. (Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte, 143.) Pp. x + 291. Berlin–Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2020. €99.95. 978 3 11 068593 0; 0
Jacobitism in Britain and the United States, 1880–1910. By Michael J. Connolly. (McGill-Queen's Transatlantic Studies.) Pp. xiv + 164. Montreal & Kingston–London: McGill-Queen's University Press, 0
Cyrille d’Alexandrie Contre Julien. IV. (books VIII-IX). Introduction by Marie-Odile Boulnois. Greek text by Wolfram Kinzig and Thomas Brüggemann; translated by Marie-Odile Boulnois and Jean Bouffarti0
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Empire and emancipation. Scottish and Irish Catholics at the Atlantic fringe, 1780–1850. By Karly S. Kehoe. (Studies in Atlantic Canada History.) Pp. xiv + 289 incl. 16 figs. Toronto–London: Universit0
Sixteenth-century mission. Explorations in Protestant and Roman Catholic theology and practice. Edited by Robert L. Gallagher and Edward L. Smither (foreword Dana L. Robert). (Studies in Historical an0
Transnational Catholicism in Tudor England. Mobility, exile and Counter-Reformation, 1530–1580. By Frederick E. Smith. Pp. xvi + 280 incl. 2 ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 20220
Christian Platonism. A history. Edited by Alexander J. B. Hampton and John Peter Kenney. Pp. xvi + 497 incl. 7 figs. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. £99.99. 978 1 108 49198 30
America's religious crossroads. Faith and community in the emerging Midwest. By Stephen T. Kissel. Pp. xviii + 243 incl. 12 ills and 2 maps. Chicago–Urbana, Il: University of Illinois Press0
Reichstag – Reichsstadt – Konfession. Worms, 1521. Edited by Claus Arnold, Matin Belz and Matthias Schnettger. (Quellen und Abhandlungen zur mittelrheinischen Kirchengeschichte, 148.) Pp. 214. Münster0
Between secularization and reform. Religion in the Enlightenment. Edited by Anna Tomaszewska. (Studies in Intellectual History, 340.) Pp. x + 362. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2022. €115. 978 90 04 45871 0; 0
Lived Experience of Religion in Recent Research on the Shepherd of Hermas0
Ravenna. Capital of empire, crucible of Europe. By Judith Herrin. Pp. xxxviii + 537 incl. 62 colour ills, 1 table and 3 maps. London: Allen Lane, 2020. £30. 978 1 846 14466 00
Privilege and prophecy. Social activism in the post-war Episcopal Church. By Robert Tobin. Pp. xiv + 372. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. £22.99. 978 0 19 090614 60
Hell without fires. Slavery, Christianity and the antebellum spiritual narrative. By Yoland Pierce. Pp. xii + 153. Gainsville, Fl: University Press of Florida, 2021 (first publ. 2005). $24.0
The Church of the East in central Asia and China. Edited by Samuel N. C. Lieu and Glen L. Thompson. (International Union of Academies. China and the Mediterranean World Project, 67.) Pp. xiii + 245 in0
Catholic Clergy of Italian Nationality in the British Middle East, 1939–19440
The genocide against the Tutsi, and the Rwandan Churches. Between grief and denial. By Philippe Denis. (Religion in Transforming Africa.) Pp. xiv + 344 incl. 1 map and 2 tables. Woodbridge–Rochester, 0
Common man, society and religion in the 16th century/Gemeiner Mann, Gesellschaft und Religion im 16. Jahrhundert. Piety, morality and discipline in the Carpathian basin/Frömmigkeit, Moral und Sozialdi0
Consecrated Things and Places: Visitation and Sacralisation in the Jacobean Church0
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Finding the Female Voice in Anselm's Orationes sive Meditationes: New Manuscript Evidence0
The limits of a Catholic spirit. John Wesley, Methodism, and Catholicism. By Kelly Diehl Yates (foreword Howard A. Snyder). Pp. xiv + 249. Cambridge: Lutterworth Press, 2023. £22.50 (paper). 978 0 7180
Journeys through the Russian Empire. The photographic legacy of Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky. By William Craft Brumfield. Pp. xii + 518 incl. 411 colour ills and 8 maps. Durham, NC–London: Duke University P0
Confessionalism and mobility in early modern Ireland. By Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin. Pp. xii + 373. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. £90. 978 0 19 887091 30
Art as a pathway to God. A historical-theological study of the Jesuit mission to China, 1552–1773. By Susangeline Yalili Patrick. (Theology and Mission in World Christianity, 28.) Pp. xii + 264 incl. 0
Friendship as ecclesial binding. A reading of St Augustine's theology of friendship from his In Iohannis Evangelium Tractatus. By Phillip J. Brown. (Studia Traditionis Theologiae; Explorations in Earl0
The Fight for Eternity in Paul Tillich's First World War Sermons0
British Protestant missions and the conversion of Europe, 1600–1900. Edited by Simone Maghenzani and Stefano Villani. (Studies in Early Modern Religious Dissents and Radicalism.) Pp. xii + 289 incl. 10
The Christian invention of time. Temporality and the literature of late antiquity. By Simon Goldhill. (Greek Culture in the Roman World.) Pp. xvi + 500. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press,0
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Machen’s hope. The transformation of a modernist in the new Princeton. By Richard E. Burnett (foreword Mark A. Noll). Pp. viii + 620. Grand Rapids, Mi : William B. Eerdmans, 2024. £35.99. 90
Irenaeus, the Scriptures, and the apostolic writings. Reevaluating the status of the New Testament writings at the end of the second century. By Kenneth Laing. (Library of New Testament Studies, 659.)0
The labors of a godly and learned divine, William Perkins. Including previously unpublished sermons. By Matthew N. Payne and Stephen J. Yuille. Pp. 512. Grand Rapids, Mi: Reformation Herita0
Mission, race, and empire. The Episcopal Church in global context. By Jennifer C. Snow. Pp. viii + 360. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. £25.99. 978 0 19 759894 80
Intra-Christian Violence and the Problematisation of the World Christian Paradigm0
Prefaces to canon law books in Latin Christianity. Selected translations, 500–1317. Second edition. Edited by Robert Somerville and Bruce C. Brasington. (Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Canon Law0
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Transnational Exchange in World Christianity: Racial Reconciliation in the Newfrontiers Network of Churches, 1979–20100
The trial of Cardinal József Mindszenty from the perspective of seventy years. The fate of church leaders in Central and Eastern Europe. Edited by András Fejérdy and Bernadett Wirthné Diera. (Pontific0
Byzantium to China. Religion, history and culture on the Silk Roads. Studies in honour of Samuel N. C. Lieu. Edited by Gunner B. Mikkelsen and Ken Parry. (Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity, 250
Have you got good religion? Black women’s faith, courage and moral leadership in the civil rights movement. By Annemarie Mingo. Pp. xvi + 224 incl. 12 ills. Urbana–Chicago: University of Illinois Pres0
Between orders and heresy. Rethinking medieval religious movements. Edited by Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane and Anne E. Lester. Pp. xx + 409 incl. 7 ills. Toronto–London: University of Toronto Press, 2022.0
Friends, neighbours, sinners. Religious difference and English society, 1689–1750. By Carys Brown. (Studies in Modern British History). Pp. x + 284 incl. 10 figs. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge Univers0
The Oxford history of British and Irish Catholicism, III: Relief, revolution, and revival, 1746–1829. Edited by Liam Chambers. (History of British and Irish Catholicism.) Pp. xxvi + 336 incl. 70
Claiming the call to preach. Four female pioneers of preaching in nineteenth-century America. By Donna Giver-Johnston. p. xviii + 321 incl. 2 ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. £64.0
Survival and resistance in Evangelical America. Christian reconstruction in the Pacific Northwest. By Crawford Gribben. Pp. xiv + 210 incl. 1 map. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. £19.90
Religious enlightenment in the eighteenth-century Nordic countries. Reasons and orthodoxy. Edited by Johannes Ljungberg and Erik Sidenvall. Pp. xviii + 430 incl. 17 ills and 1 map. Lund: Lund Universi0
Donor portraits in Byzantine art. The vicissitudes of contact between human and divine. By Rico Franses. Pp. xiv + 247 incl. 64 ills. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023 (first publ. 0
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Reliquary tabernacles in fourteenth-century Italy. Image, relic and material culture. By Beth Williamson. (Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture.) Pp. xvi + 240 incl. 61 ills and 12 colour plates. 0
Experiencing God in late medieval and early modern England. By David J. Davis. Pp. xiv + 223 incl. 18 figs. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. £75. 978 0 19 883413 70
Ceremonial splendor. Performing priesthood in early modern France. By Joy Palacios. Pp. x + 271 incl. 11 ills. Philadelphia, Pa: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022, £54.95. 978 1 5128 20
Antioch, Nicaea, and the synthesis of Constantinople. Revisiting trajectories in the fourth-century Christological debates. By Dragoş Andrei Giulea. (Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, 200
How the English Reformation was named. The politics of history, c. 1400–1700. By Benjamin M. Guyer. Pp. xiv + 220 incl. 1 fig and 1 table. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. 978 0 0
Moi, Louis Gaufridy, ayant soufflé plus de mille femmes. Une confession de sorcier au XVIIe siècle. By Thibaut Maus de Rolley. Pp. 380. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2023. €23.90 (paper). 978 2 251 454540
Evangelicalism and dissent in modern England and Wales. Edited by David Bebbington and David Ceri Jones. (Studies in Evangelicalism.) Pp. xii + 218. New York–London: Routledge, 2021. £31.99 (paper). 90
Religion and the post-revolutionary mind. Ideologues, Catholic traditionalists, and liberals in France. By Arthur McCalla. (McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas, 88.) Pp. xii + 449. Montreal0
Resetting the origins of Christianity. A new theory of sources and beginnings. By Markus Vinzent. Pp. xvi + 401. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. £30. 978 1 009 29048 70
John Henry Newman's National Monument: an Oxford Controversy0
Father Luis Olivares. A biography. Faith, politics and the origins of the Sanctuary Movement in Los Angeles. By Mario T. García, Pp. xi + 547 incl. frontispiece and 25 ills. Chapel Hill, NC: Universit0
Witnessing to the faith. Absolutism and the conscience in John Donne’s England. By Shanyn Altman. (Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain.) Pp. x + 184. Manchester: Manchester Universit0
Turning points in American church history. How pivotal events shaped a nation and a faith. By Elisha J. Coffman (foreword Mark A. Noll). Pp. xiv + 290 incl. 50 ills. Grand Rapids, Mi: Baker0
Ringen um den einen Gott. Eine politische Geschichte des Antitrinitarismus in Siebenbürgen im 16. Jahrhundert. By Edit Szegedi. (Refo500 Academic Studies, 95.) Pp. 276 incl. 10 colour ills and 5 table0
Dangerous memory in Nagasaki. Prayers, protests and Catholic survivor narratives. By Gwyn McClelland. (Asia's Transformations, 55.) Pp. xxx + 216 incl. 31 figs and 2 maps. London–New York: Routledge, 0
Embodying the soul. Medicine and religion in Carolingian Europe. By Meg Leja. (The Middle Ages Series.) Pp. x + 378 incl. 18 figs. Philadelphia, Pa: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. £81. 978 0 0
Manuals for penitents in medieval England. From Ancrene Wisse to the Parson's Tale. By Krista A. Murchison. Pp. xiv + 175. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2021. £60. 978 1 84384 608 60
Counting religion in Britain, 1970–2020. Secularization in statistical context. By Clive D. Field. Pp. xxiv + 464 incl. 2 figs and 180 tables. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. £110. 9780
Neo-Calvinsim and Roman Catholicism. Edited by James Eglinton and George Harinck. (Studies in Reformed Theology, 47.) Pp. xii + 294 incl. frontispiece. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2023. €54 (paper). 978 90 0
Churchgoing in London: The Statistical Record, 1830s to Present0
The Lord is my Portion: Religious Poverty and Canon Law in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries0
Slavery and sacred texts. The Bible, the constitution, and historical consciousness in antebellum America. By Jordan T. Watkins. (Historical Studies in American Law and Society.) Pp. xxii + 376. Cambr0
Modernes Frühchristentum. Christian C. J. Bunsens Hippolytuswerk als Programmschrift des 19. Jahrhunderts. By Pierre Sfendules. (Beiträge zur historischen Theologie, 208.) Pp. xvi + 296 incl. 7 tables0
The gospel of J. Edgar Hoover. How the FBI aided and abetted the rise of White Christian nationalism. By Lerone A. Martin. Pp. xii + 340 incl. frontispiece and 15 figs. Princeton–Oxford: Princeton Uni0
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Hippolytus of Rome's commentary on Daniel. By T. C. Schmidt. (Studies in Early Christianity and Patristics, 79.) Pp. x + 207. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2022. $37. 978 1 4632 4436 1; 1935 68700
Dutch reformed Protestants in the Holy Roman Empire, c.1550–1620. A reformation of refugees. By Jesse Spohnholz and Mirjam van Veen. (Changing Perspectives on Early Modern Europe.) Pp. xii + 313 incl.0
Fixing the liturgy. Friars, sisters, and the Dominican rite, 1256–1516. By Claire Taylor Jones. (The Middle Ages Series.) Pp. xii + 443 incl. 9 ills and 10 tables. Philadelphia, P 0
The Oxford history of British and Irish Catholicism, I: Endings and new beginnings, 1530–1640. Edited by James E. Kelly and John McCafferty. (History of British and Irish Catholicism.) Pp. xxvi0
Bishops, Canon Law and Governance in Tenth-Century England: the Constitutiones of Oda of Canterbury0
The intellectual world of late antique Christianity. Reshaping classical traditions. Edited by Lewis Ayres, Michael W. Champion and Matthew R. Crawford. Pp. xxii + 912 incl. 8 colour plates. Cambridge0
The Reformed and celibate pastor. Richard Baxter's argument for clerical celibacy. By Seth D. Osborne, Pp. 417. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2022. €150. 978 3 525 56046 40
God's Marshall Plan. American Protestants and the struggle for the soul of Europe. By James D. Strasburg. Pp. x + 313 incl. 18 ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. £64. 978 0 19 751640
Franz Hildebrandt on the BBC: Wartime Broadcasting to Nazi Germany0
Searching for compromise? Interreligious dialogue, agreements, and toleration in 16th–18th century eastern Europe. Edited by Maciej Ptaszyński and Kazimierz Bem. (Studies in Medieval and Reformation T0
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